It's all about the hands

Hello to the world! 

Buying season has started for us and I have found some quality time to continue the word of the week. I hope you all enjoyed it last week. Today we continue with techniques for making pottery.

Pottery can be made in different ways. Also pottery is available in different sizes, how do pottery, bigger than a person, is made? The first technique makes it possible. The hand-building technique needs skillful hands and clay. The clay will be pinched into a bowl and ropes of clay will wrap upward until the right height is reached. 

Second technique is the slab building. The slab building is often used for mid- size pottery. For slab building we need hands, clay and a mold. The clay will be flatten and the flattened clay will be put into a mold. After drying, the mold will be removed. 

Slab building

The last technique is the potter’s wheel. For the potter's wheel we need hands, clay and a potter’s wheel. A potter’s wheel is a wheel on a stand that can turn around. The potter’s wheel can be powered by hand, feet or electricity. This technique is common used for small sized pottery.

Drying

The next step is drying, all the potteries need to be dried before the kiln...so what happens in the kiln...?

More fire next time!

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